Professor J Huw Davies

Director of Student Recruitment and Admissions

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

: daviesjh2 @ cardiff.ac.uk
: +44 (0)29 2087 5182
Fax:: +44 (0)29 2087 4326
: 2.37B, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT

: Welsh speaking
: Available for postgraduate supervision

Interests

I have an interest in understanding global solid Earth processes, especially ones related to the mantle (the region between the crust and the core). I undertake this research through a combination of numerical modelling and data processing, especially by bringing strong observations to bear on numerical models. The models frequently utilise High-Performance Computing. They have included proposing slab break-off, assessing source region of subduction zone magmatism, subduction zone dynamics, mantle seismic structure, mantle heat flux, mantle circulation modelling, models of mantle dynamics underpinning mantle geochemistry and planetary formation and evolution. I also have a strong interest in supporting early career researchers interested in related research.

Mantle
Geodynamics
Geophysics
Subduction zone dynamics
Numerical modelling

Career overview

Professor in Geodynamics - School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University (2015 - present)
Reader in Earth and Environmental Sciences – School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University (2008 - 2015)
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciencess – School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University (2001 - 2008)
Lecturer in Geophysics – Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Liverpool (1992-2001)
NERC Research Fellow – Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, University of Cambridge (1990-1992)

Education and Qualifications

PhD – Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (1989)
MS – Geophysics, California Institute of Technology (1988)
BA Natural Sciences – Physics and Theoretical Physics - University of Cambridge (1983)

Honours and awards

Honours and Awards (excluding Grants)

Executive Editor, for Geodynamics/Geodesy, Solid Earth journal, 2015 - 2019.
President, Geodynamics Division, European Geosciences Union, 2009-11, 2011-13
Member Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) Peer Review College 2007-2010, 2012-present
Member European Research Council Peer Review College
Member European Science Foundation Peer Review College
Member Editorial Board - Tectonophysics (1998 - present)
Member Editorial Board - Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors (1998 - present)
NERC Research Fellowship 1990-1992
NERC Research Fellowship (renewed) 1992
Scholarship, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Tulsa, OK, USA 1984-1989
Senior Scholarship for First Class Performance, St. John's College, Cambridge 1982

Professional memberships

Fellow - Royal Astronomical Society
American Geophysical Union
European Geosciences Union
Cymdeithas Wyddonol Caerdydd
British Geophysical Association

Academic positions

2001-present: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader /Professor – Cardiff University
2014 - Visiting Research Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
1995 - Visiting Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
1992-2001: Theoretical Geophysics Lecturer - University of Liverpool
1990-1992: NERC Research Fellow, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, University of Cambridge
1984-1989: Research Assistant, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Speaking engagements

Recent invited conference presentations

Invited - Collège de France, Paris, France “Dynamic modelling of subducting slab interaction with transition zone”, 1-2 December 2016
CIDER – “Dynamic subduction zone modelling – interaction with viscous lower mantle” July 2016
Recent Keynote - Davies, JH, Webb PJ and DR Davies, Tethyan dynamic topography over the past 300Ma, International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 8 August, 2012
Recent Invited - Davies JH, Garel F, Goes S, Davies DR, Kramer S, Wilson C; Overriding plate deformation during subduction evolution; American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 18 December, 2015

Recent invited seminars

University of Sydney, Sydney, Nov 2014
Australian National University, Nov 2014
Macquarie University, Nov 2014
University of California, Berkeley, Dec 2014
Lille University, June 2015
Utrecht University, June 2015
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, July, 2015
Yale University, July 2015
Princeton University, July 2015
Columbia University, July 2015
Univ of Liverpool, May 2018
Deep Volatiles UK-Sino Meeting, University of Edinburgh, Sept, 2018

Committees and reviewing

External Committees

2013 - present: Member Geophysics Forum (Geological Society of London and Royal Astronomcal Society)

University Committees

2008 - present: Advanced Research Computing at Cardiff (ARCCA) – Oversight Committee
2009 - present: Advanced Research Computing at Cardiff (ARCCA) - Operational and User Group Committee
2016 - present: University Director of Research Network
2016 - present: Physical Sciences and Engineering College Director of Research Committee

School Committees

2016 - present: School Executive Commitee
2016 - present: Chair School Research Committee
2001 - present: School Exam Boards
2002-2015: Chair School IT Committee
pre 2014 - member of School (i) Finance, (ii) Teaching, (iii) Research; Committees

Exernal PhD Vivia Examiner (since 2015)

External Examiner Marie Pears, UCL, PhD thesis, January 2015
External Examiner Michael Rubey, Sydney Univ, PhD thesis, Nov 2015
External Examiner Ka Lok Li, Uppsala University, PhD thesis, 15 September, 2017
External Examiner Anne Glerum, Utrecht University, PhD thesis, 1 March, 2019

2022

Panton, J., Davies, J. H., Elliott, T., Andersen, M., Porcelli, D. and Price, M. G. 2022. Investigating influences on the Pb Pseudo‐Isochron using three‐dimensional mantle convection models with a continental reservoir. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 23(8), article number: e2021GC010309. (10.1029/2021gc010309)

2019

Price, M., Davies, J. and Panton, J. 2019. Controls on the deep water cycle within three-dimensional mantle convection models. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20(5) (10.1029/2018GC008158)
Phillips, T. N., Oldham, D. and Davies, J. H. 2019. Towards global SEM mantle convection simulations on Polyhedral-based grids. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 348, pp. 48-57. (10.1016/j.cam.2018.08.042)

2018

Mitchell, N. C. and Davies, J. H. 2018. Equatorial Pacific gravity lineaments: interpretations with basement topography along seismic reflection lines. Marine Geophysical Research 39(4), pp. 551-565. (10.1007/s11001-018-9351-x)
Price, M., Davies, J. and Panton, J. 2018. Constraining the global water budget: Understanding the deep-water cycle using 3-D mantle convection models. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington D.C., USA, 10-14 December 2018. pp. -.
Davies, J. and Price, M. 2018. Examining the role of chemical heterogeneity on the deep mantle seismic signature using 3D thermo-chemical mantle modelling. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington D.C., USA, 10-14 December 2018.
Price, M. and Davies, J. 2018. Profiling the robustness, efficiency and limits of the forward-adjoint method for 3D mantle convection modelling. Geophysical Journal International 212(2), pp. 1450-1462. (10.1093/gji/ggx489)

2017

Price, M., Davies, J. and Panton, J. 2017. Investigating melting induced mantle heterogeneities in plate driven mantle convection models. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 11-15 December, 2015.
Wolstencroft, M. and Davies, J. H. 2017. Breaking supercontinents; no need to choose between passive or active. Solid Earth 8, pp. 817-825. (10.5194/se-8-817-2017)
Barry, T. L. et al. 2017. Whole-mantle convection with tectonic plates preserves long-term global patterns of upper mantle geochemistry. Scientific Reports 7, article number: 1870. (10.1038/s41598-017-01816-y)

2016

Van Heck, H. J., Davies, J. H., Elliott, T. and Porcelli, D. 2016. Global-scale modeling of melting and isotopic evolution of Earth's mantle: melting modules for TERRA. Geoscientific Model Development 9, pp. 1399–1411. (10.5194/gmd-9-1399-2016)
Price, M. and Davies, J. 2016. Investigating past mantle structures with assimilation techniques in mantle convection models. Presented at: China-UK Workshop on Deep Volatiles, Mineral Deposits and Geodynamics, State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, Nanjing, China, 9-15 September 2016.

2015

Davies, J. H., Garel, F., Davies, R. and Goes, S. 2015. Overriding plate deformation during subduction evolution [invited paper]. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, 14-18 December 2015.
Van Heck, H., Davies, J. H., Nowacki, A. and Wookey, J. 2015. Probing seismically melting induced mantle heterogeneities in the thermo-chemical convection models. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, 14-18 December 2015.
Price, M. and Davies, J. H. 2015. Testing the stability of LLSVPs using the full adjoint method for mantle circulation models. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, 14-18 December, 2015.
Price, M. and Davies, J. H. 2015. Testing the limit of predicitability of mantle circulation models. Presented at: British Geophysical Association Postgraduate Research in Progress Meeting 2015, National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton, UK, 10-11 September 2015.
Walker, A., Davies, J., Davies, D. R. and Wookey, J. 2015. Linking TERRA and DRex to relate mantle convection and seismic anisotropy. Presented at: European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 12-17 April 2015.
Davies, J. H., Van Heck, H., Nowacki, A., Wookey, J., Elliott, T. and Porcelli, D. 2015. Dynamic coupling of bulk chemistry, trace elements and mantle flow. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, 14-18 December, 2015.
Nowacki, A., Van Heck, H., Davies, R., Davies, J. H. and Wookey, J. 2015. Plumes, piles or puddings? Testing hypotheses of lowermost mantle dynamics with geodynamic and seismic calculations. Presented at: GeoBerlin - Annual Meeting DGGV DMG, Berlin, Germany, 4-7 October 2015.

2014

Garel, F., Goes, S., Davies, R., Davies, J. H., Kramer, S. and Wilson, C. 2014. Interaction of subducted slabs with the mantle transition-zone: A regime diagram from 2-D thermo-mechanical models with a mobile trench and an overriding plate. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 15(5), pp. 1739-1765. (10.1002/2014GC005257)

2013

Davies, J. H. 2013. Global map of solid earth surface heat flow. Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems 14(10), pp. 4608-4622. (10.1002/ggge.20271)
Davies, D. R., Davies, J. H., Bollada, P. C., Hassan, O., Morgan, K. and Nithiarasu, A. 2013. A hierarchical mesh refinement technique for global 3-D spherical mantle convection modelling. Geoscientific Model Development 6, pp. 1095-1107. (10.5194/gmd-6-1095-2013)
Davies, J. H. and Van Heck, H. 2013. Improving hydrocarbon exploration through mantle circulation modeling. Presented at: 75th EAGE Conference and Exhibition, London, UK, 10-13 June 2013. European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, (10.3997/2214-4609.20130101)

2012

Davies, D. R., Goes, S., Davies, J. H., Schuberth, B. S. A., Bunge, H. and Ritsema, J. 2012. Reconciling dynamic and seismic models of Earth's lower mantle: the dominant role of thermal heterogeneity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 353-54, pp. 253-269. (10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.016)
Oldham, D. N., Davies, J. H. and Phillips, T. N. 2012. Generic polyhedron grid generation for solving partial differential equations on spherical surfaces. Computers & Geosciences 39, pp. 11-17. (10.1016/j.cageo.2011.06.004)

2011

Wolstencroft, M. and Davies, J. H. 2011. Influence of the Ringwoodite-Perovskite transition on mantle convection in spherical geometry as a function of Clapeyron slope and Rayleigh number. Solid Earth 2, pp. 315-326. (10.5194/se-2-315-2011)
Wolstencroft, M. and Davies, J. H. 2011. Influence of the Ringwoodite-Perovskite transition on mantle convection in spherical geometry as a function of Clapeyron slope and Rayleigh number. Solid Earth 3, pp. 713-741. (10.5194/sed-3-713-2011)

2010

Davies, J. H. and Davies, D. R. 2010. Earth's surface heat flux. Solid Earth 1(1), pp. 5-24. (10.5194/se-1-5-2010)

2009

Davies, D. R. and Davies, J. H. 2009. Thermally-driven mantle plumes reconcile multiple hot-spot observations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 278(1-2), pp. 50-54. (10.1016/j.epsl.2008.11.027)
Wolstencroft, M., Davies, J. H. and Davies, D. R. 2009. Nusselt-Rayleigh number scaling for spherical shell Earth mantle simulation up to a Rayleigh number of 109109. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 176(1-2), pp. 132-141. (10.1016/j.pepi.2009.05.002)

2008

Davies, J. H. 2008. Did a mega-collision dry Venus' interior?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 268(3-4), pp. 376-383. (10.1016/j.epsl.2008.01.031)
Davies, D. R., Davies, J. H., Hassan, O., Morgan, K. and Nithiarasu, P. 2008. Adaptive finite element methods in geodynamics: convection dominated mid-ocean ridge and subduction zone simulations. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow 18(7/8), pp. 1015-1035. (10.1108/09615530810899079)

2007

Davies, D. R., Davies, J. H., Hassan, O., Morgan, K. and Nithiarasu, P. 2007. Investigations into the applicability of adaptive finite element methods to two-dimensional infinite Prandtl number thermal and thermochemical convection. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 8(5), article number: Q05010. (10.1029/2006GC001470)

2006

Davies, J. H. and Bunge, B. H. 2006. Are splash plumes the origin of minor hotspots?. Geology 34(5), pp. 349-352. (10.1130/G22193.1)
Wolstencroft, M., Rana, O. F. and Davies, J. H. 2006. Distributed storage of high-volume environmental simulation data: mantle modelling. Presented at: 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2006), Hong Kong, 18-22 December 20062006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2006 main conference proceedings) : (WI ’06) : proceedings : 18-22 December, 2006, Hong Kong, China. Los Alamitos, Calif: IEEE Computer Society pp. 991-996., (10.1109/WI.2006.63)

2005

Davies, J. H. 2005. Steady plumes produced by downwellings in Earth-like vigor spherical whole mantle convection models. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 6(12), pp. 1-25. (10.1029/2005GC001042)
Davies, J. H. 2005. Steady plumes produced by downwellings in Earth-like vigor spherical whole mantle convection models. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 6(12), article number: Q12001. (10.1029/2005GC001042)

2004

Oldham, D. N. and Davies, J. H. 2004. Numerical investigation of layered convection in a three-dimensional shell with application to planetary mantles. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 5(12), pp. 1-25. (10.1029/2003GC000603)
Rhodes, M. and Davies, J. H. 2004. Constructing a Geodynamic A Priori Seismic (GAPS) velocity model of upper mantle heterogeneity. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 5(3) (10.1029/2003GC000622)

2002

Davies, J. H., Brodholt, J. P. and Wood, B. J. 2002. Introduction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 360(1800), pp. 2361-2369. (10.1098/rsta.2002.1086)
Davies, J. H. 2002. Earth science: breaking plates. Nature 418(6899), pp. 736-738. (10.1038/418736a)
Davies, J. H., Brodholt, J. P. and Wood, B. J. eds. 2002. Chemical reservoirs and convection in the Earth's mantle. Philosophical Transactions Royal Society London A Vol. 1800. London: Royal Society.

2001

Rhodes, M. and Davies, J. H. 2001. Tomographic imaging of multiple mantle plumes in the uppermost lower mantle. Geophysical Journal International 147(1), pp. 88-92. (10.1046/j.0956-540x.2001.01512.x)
Davies, J. H. and Bunge, H. 2001. Seismically ”fast” geodynamic mantle models. Geophysical Research Letters 28(1), pp. 73-76. (10.1029/2000GL011805)
Rhodes, M. and Davies, J. H. 2001. Tomographic imaging of multiple mantle plumes in the uppermost lower mantle. Geophysical Journal International 147(1), pp. 88-92. (10.1046/j.0956-540x.2001.01512.x)
Bunge, H. and Davies, J. H. 2001. Tomographic images of a mantle circulation model. Geophysical Research Letters 28(1), pp. 77-80. (10.1029/2000GL011804)

2000

Leng, J., Brooke, J., Hewitt, T. and Davies, J. H. 2000. Visualization of seismic data in geophysics and astrophysics. Presented at: SGI 2000 Users' Conference Proceedings, Krakow, Poland, 11-14th October 2000. pp. 112-123.

1999

Davies, J. 1999. Simple analytic model for subduction zone thermal structure. Geophysical Journal International 139(3), pp. 823-828. (10.1046/j.1365-246x.1999.00991.x)
Rowland, A. and Davies, J. H. 1999. Buoyancy rather than rheology controls the thickness of the overriding mechanical lithosphere at subduction zones. Geophysical Research Letters 26(19), pp. 3037-3040. (10.1029/1999GL005347)
Davies, J. H. 1999. The role of hydraulic fractures and intermediate-depth earthquakes in subduction-zone magmatism. Nature 398(6723), pp. 142-145. (10.1038/18202)

1998

Davies, J. H. and von Blanckenburg, F. 1998. Thermal controls on slab breakoff and the rise of high-pressure rocks during continental collisions. In: Hacker, B. and Liou, J. G. eds. When continents collide : Geodynamics and geochemistry of ultrahigh-pressure rocks. Petrology and Structural Geology Vol. 10. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 97-115.

1996

von Blanckenburg, F. and Davies, J. H. 1996. Feasibility of double slab breakoff (Cretaceous and Tertiary) during the Alpine convergence. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 89(1), pp. 111-127.

1995

Davies, J. H. and von Blanckenburg, F. 1995. Slab breakoff: A model of lithosphere detachment and its test in the magmatism and deformation of collisional orogens. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 129(1-4), pp. 85-102. (10.1016/0012-821X(94)00237-S)
von Blanckenburg, F. and Davies, J. H. 1995. Slab breakoff: A model for syncollisional magmatism and tectonics in the Alps. Tectonics 14(1), pp. 120-131. (10.1029/94TC02051)

1994

Davies, J. H. 1994. Lateral water transport across a dynamic mantle wedge: a model for subduction zone magmatism. In: Ryan, M. P. ed. Magmatic Systems. International Geophysics series Vol. 57. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 197-221.

1992

Davies, J. H. and Stevenson, D. J. 1992. Physical model of source region of subduction zone volcanics. Journal of Geophysical Research 97(B2), pp. 2037-2070. (10.1029/91JB02571)
Davies, J. H. 1992. Lower bound estimate of average earthquake mislocation from variance of travel-time residuals. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 75(1-3), pp. 89-101. (10.1016/0031-9201(92)90120-K)
Davies, J. H., Gudmundsson, O. and Clayton, R. W. 1992. Spectra of mantle shear wave velocity structure. Geophysical Journal International 108(3), pp. 865-882. (10.1111/j.1365-246X.1992.tb03476.x)

1991

Davies, J. H. and Bickle, M. J. 1991. A physical model for the volume and composition of melt produced by hydrous fluxing above subduction zones. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 335(1638), pp. 355-364. (10.1098/rsta.1991.0051)

1990

Gudmundsson, O., Davies, J. H. and Clayton, R. W. 1990. Stochastic analysis of global travel time data: Mantle heterogeneity and random errors in the ISC data. Geophysical Journal International 102(1), pp. 25-43. (10.1111/j.1365-246X.1990.tb00528.x)

I will lecture in 2020-21 on

Structural Geology and Geophysics (Yr 2)
Numerical Methods (Yr 4)

In 2019-20 I lectured/taught/or assessed on the following modules

Planet Earth (yr 1),
Geophysics (yr 2),
Numerical Methods (yr 4).

I also lectured on the modules, Plate Tectonics (yr 2), Dynamic Earth (yr 3) and Geodynamics (yr 4), pre-2020. I also support some fieldtrip, and projects modules; e.g. the 70 credit Year 4 MESci Research Project module. In my first decade or more at Cardiff I lectured on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) (Years 1 to 3).

I am External Examiner for University of Bristol's Geophysics Degree Programmes, from 2018-2023.

I am the School's Director of Research. Before that I led the Centre for Solid Earth and Natural Resources (2015-16), and lead one of its sub-constituent groups, the Mantle Geodynamics Group (MGG) which is part of the Tectonics and Geophysics Research Group.

The Mantle Geodynamic Group tries to understand how the region between the crust and the core, called the mantle, drives Earth dynamics including plate tectonics. We primarily do this using advanced numerical models on high performance computers. We constrain the models using observational data from many disciplines ranging from seismology and geodesy to geochemistry, geology and petrology.

A big new opening for my group will be the "Mantle Circulation Constrained (MC²): A multidisciplinary 4D Earth framework for understanding mantle upwellings" grant recently awarded to myself as lead PI, together with a further 13 co-Investigators across 9 UK Universities (see below on the grant section). This project will support a PDRA who will model the mantle circulation over the past 1 Ga, focussing on the past 300 Ma. This will include models assimilating plate motion histories provided by Prof. Müller's Earthbyte group at the University of Sydney. The final models will assimilate the seismic tomography structures that will be imaged by the MC2 seismologists working with Dr. Ferreira (UCL) and Dr. Koelemeijer (RHUL). The grant will further support 2 PhD students in my group who will consider the implications of the mantle circulations models for seismic discontinuities and noble gases. It will also support an isotope geochemist PDRA at Cardiff supervised by Dr. Morten Andersen. In total the project will employ 10 PDRAs across the UK and a further Researcher Co-Investigator. The goal of the project will be to understand mantle upwelling, including passive upwelling, active upwelling beneath "hot-spots", and the active upwellings that have punctuated geological history with their extinction inducing Large Igneous Provinces (LIPS). This project will start in October 2020, and we will be looking to fill the 4 year PDRA mantle circulation modeller position then, and the 2 mantle geodynamics PhD students to start by 20201.

Recently this has included

Global models of water circulation (Price, Davies and Panton, 2019)
Assimilation of seismic tomography into mantle dynamic models (Price and Davies, 2018);
Maintaining isotopic domains in mantle circualtion models (Barry et al., 2017)
Developing a spectral element code for mantle convection (Phillips et al., 2019)
Breaking supercontinents (Wolstencroft and Davies, 2017)
Module for global modelling of melting and isotope evolution in the mantle (van Heck et al., 2016)

Over the years I have published on

Heat Flow (Davies, 2013; Davies and Davies, 2010)
Subduction dynamics (Garel et al., 2014; Davies 1999)
Subduction zone thermal structure and melting (Davies and Stevenson, 1992; Davies, 1999)
Mantle seismic structure (Rhodes and Davies, 2001; Davies et al., 1992)
Slab Breakoff (Davies and von Blanckenburg, 1995; von Blanckenburg and Davies, 1995)
Mantle convection (Wolstencroft and Davies, 2011; Wolstencroft et al., 2009)
Adaptivity in mantle convection (Davies et al., 2008, Davies et al., 2007)
Mantle upwellings (Davies, 2005, Davies and Bunge, 2006; Davies and Davies, 2009)
Deep lower mantle structure, thermal or compositional (Davies et al., 2012)

Recent Grants

NERC Large Grant - Lead PI - "Mantle Circulation Constrained (MC²): A multidisciplinary 4D Earth framework for understanding mantle upwellings", October 2020- September 2024, ~£3 million. Principal Investigator - Prof. J. Huw Davies (Cardiff Univ.); Co-Investigators - Prof. Elliott, Dr. Myhill, Prof. Wookey (Univ. of Bristol), Dr. Andersen (Cardiff Univ.), Dr. Shorttle (Univ. of Cambridge), Dr. Roberts (Imperial College London), Dr. Davies, Dr. Nowacki, Dr. Walker (Univ. of Leeds), Prof. Biggin (Univ of Liverpool), Dr. Porcelli (Univ. of Oxford), Dr. Koelemeijer (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London), Dr. Ferreira (Univ. College London). Project Partners - Dr. Bower (Univ. of Bern), Prof. Cordier (Univ. de Lille), Dr. Davies (ANU), Dr. Ghiorso (ENKI), Prof. Müller (EarthByte, Univ. of Sydney), Dr. Zaroli (Univ. de Strasbourg).

Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, The Evolution of Terrestrial Planets: Insights from Models of Planetary Evolution with Coupled Internal, Atmospheric/Surface Development, Dr. Matt Weller, 2019-2021, €212933.76

NERC Grant – NE/M000400/1 - Lead PI of Cardiff element – “Volatile legacy of the Early Earth”, £124k (FEC) – September 2014-September 2020. This Consortium is led by Prof. Walter (Univ. Bristol) (Part of NERC Programme - Volatiles, geodynamics and solid earth controls on the habitable planet).

NERC Grant – NE/M000397/1 Lead PI of Cardiff element – “Mantle volatiles : processes, reservoirs and fluxes”, £221k (FEC) - Sept 2014 – Oct 2020. This Consortium is led by Prof. Ballentine (Univ. Oxford) (Part of NERC Programme - Volatiles, geodynamics and solid earth controls on the habitable planet).

NERC Standard Grant – NE/K004824/1 -£428,490 (£240,763 Cardiff element; £192,610 awarded) – Lead PI, co-I James Wookey (Univ. of Bristol) – Project Partners – Rhodri Davies (Australian National University), Christine Thomas (Univ Muenster), Lars Stixrude and Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni (UCL) - Superplumes, superpiles or superpuddings? Understanding the thermochemical dynamics of the mantle with waveform seismology – September 30 2013 - September 2017.

NERC Standard Grant – NE/I024429/1 - £428,490 (£204,669 from NERC to CU) –Lead PI -Understanding how the mantle transition-zone 'valve' controls slab fate – June 1, 2012 - 2016

I am interested in lead supervising projects related to

mantle dynamics
geodynamics
subduction
plumes and mantle upwellings

and co-supervising a broader range of projects where there is

Geophysics
Numerical components

I currently lead supervise

Zhibin Lei - Tectonic evolution of North China Craton
James Panton - Mantle volatile cycle, including Pb-Pb pseudo-isochron
Duo Zhang - Formation of Back Arc Basins

I co-supervise, Jennifer Ellis (Faulting in a mineralised intrusion), Eveanjelene Snee (Volcanic Eruptions) and Joel Rodney (Univ. Bristol, Mantle isotopes).

Current supervision

Duo Zhang

Research student

Past projects

Jennifer Ellis - co-Supervisor - Faulting in a mineralised intrusion - 2020
Matthew Price - lead-Supervisor -
Rebecca Lawton - lead-Supervisor -
Peter Webb - lead-Supervisor -
Martin Wolstencroft - lead-Supervisor -
Rhodri Davies - lead-Supervisor -
David Oldham - lead-Supervisor -
Carlos Izarra - co-Supervisor -
Mark Rhodes - lead-Supervisor -
Andrea Rowland - lead-Supervisor -

Outreach

Open University Severnside Branch - Presentation on "Mantle Engine", Saturday December 7th 2019, at Christmas meeting.

I have presented to many School Groups who visit the 3D Visualisation Suite in the School. This will be on topics related to mantle convection, including in Welsh.

Impact

I have undertaken research with a range of geoscience companies.

Media (2020 onwards)

MC2 project was covered on BBC News website at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52701935 May 2020

Talk Radio - June 2020

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire - June 2020

BBC Radio 5 Live - June 2020

Radio National, ABC Australia - June 2020

Naked Scientists podcast - June 2020